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Post by bassman on Dec 12, 2015 0:17:05 GMT -5
I've been hunting an area up in Merritt and I've been coming across tree breaks that I can't explain. Most have been approx 7-9 ft from the ground all of the trees are birch trees. There are no rub marks on the trees from antlered animals so I don't believe that deer or elk are making them. Last year I came across 3 tracks crossing the road that were in the snow they were about a size 9 man's foot not a shoe print though there were distinguishable toes. I attempted to match the stride by placing my foot next to the tracks and simply could not. I did find what could possibly be a track that I took a pic of with my iphone but I'm not certain that it is. As for the tree breaks could they be sasquatch? Do they bother with breaking small trees to mark their territory? These trees are maybe 1 1/2 inches in diameter. One weird thing was I had hunted in the area all day and at dark went back to my truck slept the night and headed back out in the morning to find that two trees had fallen across the old logging road that I took to walk in almost as if to say stay out. I don't know maybe I'm nuts.
Anyway if anyone has any opinions on tree breaks I'm all ears.
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Post by Captain Morgan on Dec 12, 2015 11:46:53 GMT -5
Hi Bassman, I'm glad you mentioned the possibility of elk making the breaks. I would think that trees that small might not show scrapes, as they were straddled on order to lower the leafy parts to be eaten. Could they have been bent and snapped by a bear? I don't know, but that's a much more plausible explanation than Sasquatch.
We have no clear evidence that Sasquatch breaks trees for any type of demarcation. It's speculation.
About the trees in the road - I do find these reports odd. Trees fall over all the time, but if the tree is not where it is uprooted, then it had to be moved. Being moved is suspicious. That's not to say a human couldn't move a felled tree to block a path for some reason, but I've heard of this where it in turn took several men to move the tree back off the road due to the sheer size and weight.
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Post by sawone on Dec 12, 2015 20:51:19 GMT -5
bassman, nice area to hunt game and search for sasquatch. I know some of the back country up there, but don't get there nearly often enough. I concur with all of Captain Morgan's comments above; until someone sees, and preferably films, a sasquatch in the act of making tree breaks, it's all just speculation.
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Post by paul213 on Jan 5, 2016 20:33:26 GMT -5
Id say at this point from everything i have read that's its a safe bet to say they break trees. What would make that something real to consider in my book would be if that tree is broken and twisted a few times. a lot of people i follow in east Texas see that a lot.
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Post by bassman on Jan 11, 2016 0:23:06 GMT -5
paul213 many of the trees were twisted around most of them were small in diameter 1-2 inches. On my last trip into the area to hunt I spent the day in my hunting blind and then spent the night in my truck. I got up early and walked back in the next morning to my blind and there were two trees that had fallen across the road about 100 ft apart. To be honest it had snowed about 6 inches that night there were no tracks in sight but the trees didn't look as if they fell and made imprints in the snow. It was as if something was saying stay out. I found tracks last year about a mile and a half from this area last year and one track this year at least I think it is a track. I have a pic on my phone and of a couple of the tree breaks. Right now I think there is a couple of them in the area one juvenile and one larger animal maybe it's mother the tracks last year were small.
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Post by island on Jan 29, 2016 17:13:44 GMT -5
I would be interested to see the photos of the twisted or snapped trees !
I came across a tree that I think was damaged by a Sasquatch it was twisted in the same manner as someone trying to twist snap a branch , only it was a 6 inch thick section 7 ft up a 20 ft tree.
The terrain had divots and was uneven and the snap/twist was at *least* 7 feet off the ground.
I can best describe the twist as appearing like it happened very fast , explosive like.
It's on a hillside off a logging road not far from my house in port alberni , Vancouver island so I can go back to photograph it.
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Post by billr on Feb 1, 2016 2:09:05 GMT -5
Id say at this point from everything i have read that's its a safe bet to say they break trees. What would make that something real to consider in my book would be if that tree is broken and twisted a few times. a lot of people i follow in east Texas see that a lot. A rumour spread by a thousand people is no more true than a rumour spread by one Until we have concrete evidence showing that sasquatch break trees, we are only speculating At this point in time we have many people claiming to know what sasquatch do and don't do, and yet here they are an unproven species
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Post by Captain Morgan on Feb 1, 2016 10:55:08 GMT -5
All that logic and reason, you're a real party pooper Billr Hey there's always the BFF where subject matter experts can share conjecture. I think they're all rather quite fond of one another.
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Post by Cryptosaurian on Feb 10, 2016 20:35:40 GMT -5
I concur and with sawone on the whole treebreak thing
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Post by island on Feb 18, 2016 0:22:15 GMT -5
A picture is worth a thousand words so they say
I am going to go for a walk a few miles away when my new camera arrives and take some video and photos of the twist snapped tree i mentioned earlier and post it for others to consider or possibly explain.
I have a camera on order , its a Sony 20mp Superzoom camera , although this one is just 35x optical zoom 70x with the digital zoom .its zoom lens is 24mm to 880mm as compared to the old 35mm cameras , its got some reach !
It takes hd video which I plan to use to document any strangeness i encounter on my gold and mineral prospecting trips in the mountains and valleys in my area.
I live in port alberni , a area hot (as far as they go) with Sasquatch sightings
The camera is on its way should be here next week from Ontario , I picked it up off of eBay used for $100 ( tip ) many of the Superzooms come in 60x or more zoom one is 90x optical zoom but cost $1400 so its out of most of our reaches or sensibilities.
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Post by Captain Morgan on Feb 18, 2016 2:09:38 GMT -5
If the picture quality is still great at higher zoom that's a plus. I have a Panasonic with stabilization and it takes some pretty decent vids. I don't have a lot up except the gorilla call blasting on my utube channel.
It's a balance between quality and quantity where ever you go. And that mostly means go broke.
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Post by island on Feb 18, 2016 14:37:00 GMT -5
The Zoom Quality is what sold me on the camera , I watched some videos on youtube by people doing zoom tests.
One tester did tests with the camera in full zoom plus doubled it digitally to zoom in close to examine for artifacts / noise , it was DEAD clear in his tests which impressed the tester and me , so much I had a look for and bought a lightly used one on fleabay 20 minutes later.
The photos he took at 20 MP with full zoom was about 5x to big for the computer screens resolution so it was magnified about 5x by that then he digitally doubled it to examine it under even more magnification , it was those photos that were still dead clear that sold me on the camera
In the previous weeks I was looking into the Canon Superzoom cameras when I came across the Sony and made my decision . Sony it turns out makes most of the digital camera sensors for the other camera manufacturers. Minolta is owned by Sony makes Sony's lenses along with other camera manufactures lenses. Although to me Sony has been so overly advertised it has permanently hurt their reputation imo but I bought one in spite of it.
My new squatch camera is shaped like a DSLR so its easy enough to hold stable imo if you have experienced with the Film and DSLR cameras. The previous camera was a 5mp canon rebel DSLR with a foot long Zoom lenses on it but does not shoot video so I decided to do a upgrade.
Trick is (if you cannot find a brace of some sort) is to pull your elbows into your body hold your breath for a sec and take the shot or start taking video.
I will try to use a tripod or a tree or branch or a rock when shooting video
The Camera has one mode of the "Steady shot" stabilization for use when taken photos and a 2nd full time stabilization mode used when shooting video.
at 20 mp it will give a high amount of detail in the Photos , it also has a high bit rate for the Video detail. 720p at 9mbps which is around twice the detail/ information compared to most of the 720p cameras that generally use 4 to 6 Mbps of data. The size of the data in the image files translates to the amount of detail / clarity in a Video or Photo
I will add that not all of the Superzoom cameras have good results at full zoom , especially with the 50x and higher cameras but not the 90x $1400 camera , that one was still dead clear at full Zoom. which is amazing as it is a 24 to 2300mm zoom lens when compared to a 35mm camera which is the standard used for conversions.
That lenses would be 3 feet long if it was in 35mm form.
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Post by Cryptosaurian on Feb 19, 2016 13:46:07 GMT -5
Glad to hear you're going some investigate work! Unfortunately, with the current state of "research" in the sasquatch field now, so-called investigators actually doing their due diligence is becoming more and more of a rarity. Good luck, island! Hey CaptainMorgan, are you AnonymousResearcher by any chance (because I'm darn sure saw your videos of your callblasting tests. Glad to see you are not using the purported sasquatch calls like all the other researchers do)? Are you going to put up more videos---because I would sure like to see some more fieldwork videos on your end
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Post by Captain Morgan on Feb 19, 2016 16:39:42 GMT -5
Ya that's me. I camped with Jason and we tested casting with Dental Cal. I don't plan to post much on that utube channel, I just use that for people I collaborate with. Recently I'm testing how to record constant video clips from the FLIR I have on to small micro-pc or cell phone, Raspberry PI etc.
The sounds blasting test wasn't about whether biggy would respond to it, it was about how far you can get sound to travel. This was 4 good sized speakers on a 1000w amp.
That night we re ran those blasts and Thomas and I walked to the left about a km or so, and away from the angle of the speakers. With all the wet forest, we could hear it, but just barely.
The lesson I took from that is to find really open and clear areas to blast to and echo from, blast in multiple directions.
I have a pretty vast collection of wildlife animal sounds, jungle animal sounds, distress calls, Native American chants, children playing, women yapping on and on . . . I'll be using them on Vancouver Island which is why I want to be super remote \ isolated. That and about 47 damned cameras.
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Post by Cryptosaurian on Feb 19, 2016 17:03:50 GMT -5
Interesting. Judging from what you're saying, wide open spaces would provide the best chance for echoes of calls to resound off of. Now why don't you post videos that are non-collaborative/solitary? Is it just not that a big of a deal to you? 47 cameras....*whistles* That would take a big chunk out of your wallet ;)You going to do any more collaborative field videos? I would love to see a vid where you and a bunch of others are out on the field doing an investigation, doing the call blasts. Dunno, just something to think about, I guess. Keep it up, Captain!
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